How big are your basilisks?

JG

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Jan 8, 2021, 10:46:16 AM1/8/21

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I always assumed basilisks were... larger. Maybe cow sized?

But I have this project of getting all the monsters from the manual as
miniatures, and lately I found a few of the crop of official DnD minis
on clearance.

...making those nearly the only 5th ed things I have bought so far...

In any case I was quite happy with their looks, until I got to the basilisk.
Which is absolutely tiny.
Here's someone's comparison picture.
https://maledrakh.files.wordpress.com/2020/09/200925-nolzurs-w11-basilisk-conan.jpg

This lead to me frantically leafing through a few books and figuring out
that

a. this thing is still too small
b. basilisks actually aren't that much bigger in the actual rules (their
main body without tail should be man-sized)

But how big are they in your head?

Paul Colquhoun

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Jan 8, 2021, 10:10:29 PM1/8/21

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From memory, they are lizard like, so same size as a medium to large dog,
but with shorter legs.

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Zaghadka

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Jan 9, 2021, 12:00:54 AM1/9/21

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About the size of an ottoman.

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Jan 9, 2021, 4:15:03 PM1/9/21

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Maybe mastiff sized. I never imagined them as being overly large.

Justisaur

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Jan 9, 2021, 5:53:32 PM1/9/21

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They're about 7' long in 1e, but still considered medium. That mini is definitely too
short unless it's a younger one, it's weirdly chunky too.

- Justisaur

uglyvan

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Jan 9, 2021, 10:08:04 PM1/9/21

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have you seen Harry Potter ep 2 ( the chamber of secrets ) what they call a basilisk ?
it's a snake ( wtf ! )

Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha

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Jan 11, 2021, 2:22:43 PM1/11/21

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Zaghadka <zagh...@hotmail.com> wrote in
news:j3eivf5m2jnfu7gba...@4ax.com:

> On Fri, 8 Jan 2021 16:46:14 +0100, in rec.games.frp.dnd, JG
> wrote:
>
>>I always assumed basilisks were... larger. Maybe cow sized?
>>
>>
>>But I have this project of getting all the monsters from the
>>manual as miniatures, and lately I found a few of the crop of
>>official DnD minis on clearance.
>>
>>...making those nearly the only 5th ed things I have bought so
>>far...
>>
>>In any case I was quite happy with their looks, until I got to
>>the basilisk. Which is absolutely tiny.
>>Here's someone's comparison picture.
>>https://maledrakh.files.wordpress.com/2020/09/200925-nolzurs-w11-
>>basilisk-conan.jpg
>>
>>This lead to me frantically leafing through a few books and
>>figuring out that
>>
>>a. this thing is still too small
>>b. basilisks actually aren't that much bigger in the actual
>>rules (their main body without tail should be man-sized)
>>
>>But how big are they in your head?
>
> About the size of an ottoman.
>

Depends on teh ottoman. If it were the size of the Ottoman
*Empire*, for instance . . .

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LL

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Jan 16, 2021, 12:48:34 PM1/16/21

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Am 08.01.2021 um 16:46 schrieb JG:
> I always assumed basilisks were... larger. Maybe cow sized?

Not according to mythology, rather it's from chicken/rooster to dog sized.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilisk
(ignore the one picture of a biscione, it's got nothing to do with
basilisks IMHO)

>
>
> But I have this project of getting all the monsters from the manual as
> miniatures, and lately I found a few of the crop of official DnD minis
> on clearance.
>
> ...making those nearly the only 5th ed things I have bought so far...
>
> In any case I was quite happy with their looks, until I got to the
> basilisk.
> Which is absolutely tiny.
> Here's someone's comparison picture.
> https://maledrakh.files.wordpress.com/2020/09/200925-nolzurs-w11-basilisk-conan.jpg

This looks ridiculous.

> This lead to me frantically leafing through a few books and figuring out
> that
>
> a. this thing is still too small
> b. basilisks actually aren't that much bigger in the actual rules (their
> main body without tail should be man-sized)

which is large for a "real" basilisk. Maybe because they want a bigger
difference to the cockatrice.

> But how big are they in your head?

S, like a dog perhaps, german shepherd at the most.

LL

Rollory

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Feb 17, 2021, 3:31:26 PM2/17/21

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JG wrote:

> But how big are they in your head?

NWN1 defined a lot of this stuff for me. So, large alligator-ish.